An Early Peek At AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2

Dr. Damage writes "AMD has quite a hit in the Radeon HD 4000 series. Coming up next is a product code-named R700, a high-end graphics card based on two 4870s paired together. TechReport has a preliminary look at how the card — to be called the Radeon HD 4870 X2 — performs. Nvidia could have one heck of a fight on its hands."

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1gb mem

[sYkSh0n3]

The board has eight Hynix GDDR5 memory chips per graphics processor, four on the front and another four around back. Those chips are 1Gb each, so each GPU has a total of one gigabyte of memory to call its own. Cumulatively, 4870 X2's effective memory size is still 1GB, since data must be replicated into each GPU's memory space.

8 chips x 1GB each / 2 procs = 1gb per proc huh?

They put this thing together using Bistromathics?

Re:For news, Phoronix is your friend

[Evangelion]

Wow, Phoronix has some creepy forums. I went to their nVidia forum to see what the Nouveau project was all about:

I'd donate money to fund a third party army of reverse engineers.

Buy a bunch of people a recent nvidia card, have them produce public domain docs of every transistor down to the HDCP implementation..
get nvidia's high end cards blacklisted by windows vista for any and all secure high definition media playback...

if you know of such an effort, a sort of dedicated warfare against nvidia, please please let me know, ill happily support it

I know it's just some random guys on the internet, but that kind of attitude is just fucked up. Looks like a bunch of Stallmanites complaining that Everything Is Not Free, and having a circle jerk about the thought of binary drivers getting locked out of the kernel.